Is Medication Adherence the Next Step in Digitally Enabled Care Management?

Published: 23 Sep 2015

Introduction

In an era marked by fiscal austerity, it has become essential to improve efficiency of care provision. As part of this effort, judicious allocation of resources in terms of manpower, infrastructure, and medical supplies is critical to create a system of cost efficient care provision. To this end, remote monitoring of patient health by doctors which enables real time medical intervention, greater connectivity between patient and doctor, reduction in un-necessary doctor visits and reduction in inpatient admissions is a key tool that merits adoption across the healthcare ecosystem.